‘Insult on top of injury’: Attys claim DOC falsified records about Rikers detainee’s death

‘Insult on top of injury’: Attys claim DOC falsified records about Rikers detainee’s death

A new filing in a wrongful death lawsuit claims that the city’s Department of Correction falsely claimed in records that they acted quickly to provide Narcan to a 26-year-old dying of an overdose on Rikers Island in 2022 when instead it was the man’s brother, coincidently being held in the cell next door, who attempted to revive his sibling just before he died.

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